Month: May 2010

The – now former – German President Horst Köhler has just resigned after a slip of tongue in an interview about his visit to the German troops in Afghanistan. So, what did he say? [military operations serves to] protect our interests, for example, free trade routes, or to prevent regional instability, which might certainly have…

The pipeline isn’t the issue, it’s just a target of a tribes revenge on the government. “The pair attacks came in retaliation of an air raid that mistakenly killed a tribal dignitary, who also served as deputy governor of Marib province, Jabir Ali al-Shabwany, along with his four bodyguards […] The targeted pipeline is located…

This scandal has been reported on several websites: The sharp images from Google Earth clearly shows the North Korean communist dictatorship is logging forest areas in a UN national park. Not only does the megalomaniac Kim Jong-il seek to build a nuclear armament, impoverish his subdued people and occasionally sink South Korean ships – he’s…

From President Roosevelt’s [Wikipedia] January 11, 1944 message to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Union in which he advocated a “Second Bill of Rights” [Wikipedia]. It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the…

After decades of focusing on solar power, a natural enterprise for a country two-thirds desert, Israel is starting to pour resources into developing its wind energy industry. Much of that potential, it says, is in the Golan Heights, a strategic and windswept plateau captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Once the focal point of…

Just found The New York Times / For Crime, Is Anatomy Destiny? via Hunter-Gatherer / Does poor health cause crime?The blog looks like something for the watchlist (John Durant, did you read some Kim Stanley Robinson?) and the article is very interesting. Some highlights: shorter men are 20 to 30 percent more likely to end…